Strike Back - The Complete Fifth Season

Put the team back together!

For a first-time viewer daring to venture into the perilous world of "Strike Back" Season Five the Cinemax Original Series, with its shaky camera and viscerally choreographed military engagements, feels like a video game, but even the most provocative first-person shooter can't compare. The series, which made leading men of imports like "The Walking Dead" star Andrew Lincoln and "Blindside" hero Sullivan Stapleton, illustrates the military efforts of Section 20, a British intelligence agency protecting democracy.

Section 20's tactics are often as deadly or ruthless as those of their enemies, as the agents are dropped into the most dangerous hotbeds all across the world. For "Strike Back" Season Five, available now on Blu-ray and Digital HD, a new team of operatives is assembled with the unlikely pairing of Sergeant "Mac" McAllister and Samuel Wyatt. They find themselves on the run and dodging Syrian terrorists. MI6 has decided to reassemble Section 20, but these are the missions that no one else will dare to take - and not everyone comes back alive.

Extremely bare-budgeted and not entirely prolific in its depths of character portrayal, "Strike Back" is high on bullish military tactics and espionage, glorifies violence, and is an equal-opportunity offender when it comes to muscly nudity from either its male or female stars. And sex? There's plenty of it! (The series airs stateside on Cinemax, after all.) "Strike Back" indulges its audience by giving them exactly what they want: Missions and mayhem. Season Five is no exception, and with the elevation of a new cast of Section 20's finest on the job, it strikes hard!

The 3-disc Blu-ray set features all 10 Season Five episodes in hi-def debauchery and includes proper introductions of its all-new team of wild cards and "declassified" looks into each episode. "Strike Back" delivers on intense blockbuster thrills and never pulls any rapid-fire punches. With Season Five new fans can jump right in without having to initiate themselves with the series' previous missions. Given how often its hunky leading man Warren Brown likes to change his shirt in the field, "Strike Back" Season Five is a sure-fire hit!

"Strike Back" Season Five
Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD
$29.49
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